Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-01-28
VIRGINIA NEWS.


Mr. John Ennis, the Oldest nstige- bora
citizen of Petersburg, died Monday, aged S.
years.
The will CT the late Michael Long, Of
Page county, gives his estate, valued at
$500, 900, to his wife and two children.
A four.year- old daughter Of o. S. Mar
shall, living on Skies Island, Eastern Shore,
fell into we'll last Tuesday evening and
was drowned before she could be rescued.
To the United States District Court at
Norfolk yesterday an order was issued al
lowing an appeal from decree entered
July l, 1856, in the Southern Telegraph
Company cases and accepting bond.
1t is stated that General Manager Thomas
and Assistant General Manager Randolph
are not particularly in favor of bringing the
operating offices of the Richmond and Dan.
vile road back to Richmond from Washing
| ton.
The Catholics have purchased about
twenty acres more of land adjoining their
church lot in Roanoke, on which residence
for the priest will be built. Work on the
proposed orphan asylum will be commenced
at an early day.
James c. H. Wimbish, formerly of Hall
fax county, was recently murdered near his
home, in Quero, Texas. He was q witness
| in magistrates case, and the party or
parties against whom he testified, it is said,
waylaid and shot him.
The grand jury of Petersburg has present-
ed that city for creating nuisance, and also
called the attention of the court to the bad
condition of the water plugs about the city
and the difficulty in getting water from
| them in case of fire.
The work of repairing the damage caused
by the recent boiler explosion at Newport
News is progressing rapidly. The old boil.
ers are to be replaced by six new ones, and
it is thought that the elevator will resume
operations in about ten days.
Charles Lantz, of Shenandoah county,
was instantly killed while chopping q tree
on Tuesday morning. The tree in falling
struck large pine, and detached limb OF
the pine fell on LantZ's head, crushing the
skull and causing instant death.
Col. Robert Mayo, ex-member of Congress
from the first district, is in Richmond search
ing the old land grants to get some jntor
nation to assist him in the suit that has
been instituted against the government con-
corning the ownership of the Potomac flats.
The English syndicate who negotiated
with the stockholders of the Roanoke Zinc
aud Silver Mining Company on the Sth OF
November last for their zinc property in Ro.
noke county arrived at Roanoke Monday
prepared to pay the purchase money,
$600,000
A freight train on the Norfolk and West
err Railroad broke loose three miles west OF
Farmville yesterday evening by the break
ing of coupling-pin. Five cars were
wrecked, and Frank Williams, brakeman,
was injured. The track was blockaded for
several hours
Samuel Jewel was shot and killed by
Chas. Ward yesterday morning about six
O'Clock about three miles west of Edinburg,
in Shenandoah county. The parties had
some difficulty, when Ward, armed with q
shotgun, fired. Jewel was shot in the breast
and died in q short time.
President Kimball, of the Norfolk and
Western Railroad Company. officially an
nounces that his corporation will build 10
miles of road from Bristol to Richmond,
which is within seventy miles of Chatta-
noogs, and from that point they will reach
Chattanooga over the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad.
City Treasurer Bransford, Of Lynchburg,
having levied on q large number of tnxpay-
ers recently wno paid their taxes in cou-
pons, Judge Latham, of the Corporation
Court, yesterday granted an injunction re.
straining the treasurer from selling the eff
fects levied on for property tax. He holds
that the opinion of the Court of Appeals APP
plies only to license tax.
The committee of the Farmers Assembly
to whom was referred the "bill for the pro
lection of the agricultural interests of Vir'
ginia" have decided to hold a meeting in
Richmond on the 9TH of February, in the
Exchange Hotel. The committee invite all
who can to attend the meeting and give the
benefit of their presence and counsel to
wards securing proper and final action on
the bill.